Are there any firewall software that block programs from running?

Mar 04, 2005 24 Replies

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Gerald Vogt 21 years ago

I still don't understand why you have to redownload vmware/virtualpc all the time and reinstall it? How often do you do that that it is so bothersome to block it the first time it would come up in your PFW?

The apps inside the vm can be limited from network access just by removing the network adapter inside the vm for instance. Without network adapter there is nothing to talk to. Limiting vmware/virtualpc in addition does not seem necessary here.

I think I still not fully understand what you are up to...

Gerald

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123 21 years ago

Of course. I use ZoneAlarm to stop Virtual PC accessing the net. What's the problem?

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123 21 years ago

I said I want *Virtual PC* to stop accessing the net, not the virtual

*machine* that is being emulated. There is a difference, you know.

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Hippolyte Tainz 21 years ago

Processguard can do it.

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Mock Turtle 21 years ago

|Are there any firewall programs that will block apps from running? I |know norton does this 2005, but I'm looking to possibly not use it and |go a better route cus of system resources and norton just causes some |issues with its firewall. what i was hoping i could do is in a firewall |program just tell it to find an installer file or the actual program |file or both and just not allow it to run. even if you try to download |another of the same program like a demo or trial version it still also |would not run. even if you renamed the program name it wouldn't run.

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Maybe System Safety Monitor (SSM) is something like what you're looking for. Apparently it's free. See

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to find out about it.

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